Syncthing

Last updated Aug 14, 2022

• Type atom
• Status good
• Tool

Source:: Starting Syncthing Automatically — Syncthing documentation

It’s best/easier to install it using Chocolatey.

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cinst syncthing

You can either create a Task in the Task Scheduler or create service that automatically runs.

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New-Service Syncthing $env:ChocolateyInstall/bin/syncthing.exe -StartupType Automatic
Start-Service Syncthing

There’s some things to consider when using this approach:

• You’ll get a warning each time you go to the GUI, that it’s running as admin and it shouldn’t.
• There are also some security considerations as apparently any other service could use syncthing to access your files.

• Create a Task
• Triggers: At System Startup
• Actions: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\syncthing.exe with additional arguments --no-console --no-browser
• Settings: Turn off Stop the task if it runs longer than option.

• This is a better approach as the Task Scheduler doesn’t work well if you have set Windows Terminal as your default.
  • It will open console even though you specify --no-console option there.
• Go to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and create a new Shortcut there.
• C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\syncthing.exe --no-console --no-browser
• In Properties of the shortcut, make sure that you are using Legacy console under Options tab.